14,646
15K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.
movies
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favorite 21
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Major steps in the construction of a two-lane (pre-Interstate) highway.
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Topic: Infrastructure: Roads and highways
4,418
4.4K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Universal-International
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eye 4,418
favorite 8
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Produced to garner support for the 1956 Federal Aid-Highway Act, the law that enabled the Interstate Highway system. After a small town learns that it is to be bypassed by a new freeway, highway officials and politicians help to convince residents that the freeway is actually in their interest. The film ends as it began, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new stretch of highway.
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Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Car culture: General
4,623
4.6K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Universal-International
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eye 4,623
favorite 19
comment 2
Produced to garner support for the 1956 Federal Aid-Highway Act, the law that enabled the Interstate Highway system. After a small town learns that it is to be bypassed by a new freeway, highway officials and politicians help to convince residents that the freeway is actually in their interest. The film ends as it began, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new stretch of highway.
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Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Car culture: General
13,329
13K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
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Handy (Jam) Organization
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favorite 23
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Driving is compared with running a railroad train. With excellent images of steam-era passenger trains.
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Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Safety: Automotive
15,101
15K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, Educational Film Service
movies
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favorite 38
comment 2
Reviews the history of transportation in the U.S. and promotes the economic and social benefits of more and better public roads..
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Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Automobiles: History
21,590
22K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
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Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
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favorite 44
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How road maps are drawn, field-checked and printed.
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Topics: Cartography, Geography, Infrastructure: Roads and highways
3,867
3.9K
Mar 1, 2007
03/07
by
Frith Films
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favorite 7
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Frith Films presents, Builders Of The Broad Highway, Part 2. Produced and Photographed by Emily Benton Firth, Commentator Don McNamara.
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Topics: Motion Pictures: Sponsored, Sustainability, Infrastructure: Roads and Highways, Occupations:...
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Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Unknown
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favorite 7
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Opening of California State Highway 101 at San Francisco, with 50,000 people in attendance; parade of automobiles from San Francisco Civic Center; Mayor James "Sunny Jim" Rolph of San Francisco; Mayor Taylor of San Mateo; county supervisors; Queen Clara Carli; aerial views of highway and air-to-air shots of airplane carrying dignitaries. The highway linked San Francisco with northern San Mateo County to the south.
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Topics: San Francisco: Infrastructure, Celebrations, Infrastructure: Roads and highways
18,393
18K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
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Unknown
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favorite 8
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Dedication of the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway (old U.S. 30), the legendary transcontinental route, in Lincoln Park, San Francisco.
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Topics: San Francisco: Infrastructure, Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Celebrations
5,526
5.5K
Mar 1, 2007
03/07
by
Frith Films
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favorite 12
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Frith Films presents, Builders Of The Broad Highway, Part 1. Produced and Photographed by Emily Benton Firth, Commentator Don McNamara.
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Topics: Motion Pictures: Sponsored, Sustainability, Infrastructure: Roads and Highways, Occupations:...
11,889
12K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
MPO Productions, Inc.
movies
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favorite 25
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Henry Ford II introduces this film designed to encourage private citizens to unite and support road improvement. Part of the lobbying campaign that culminated in legislation authorizing the Interstate Highway system in 1956, this film shows community efforts to improve and increase safety on the Bayshore Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area; congestion in Pittsburgh and the Golden Triangle redevelopment area; the economic benefits of Boston's circumferential highway, Route 128; and safety...
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Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, San Francisco: Infrastructure, Manifest destiny
21,252
21K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
General Motors Photographic
movies
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Talking driver's license narrates this hymn to the beneficial effects of highways, cars, and driving.
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Topics: Safety: Driving, Car culture, Infrastructure: Roads and highways
10,831
11K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
MPO Productions, Inc.
movies
eye 10,831
favorite 23
comment 3
Henry Ford II introduces this film designed to encourage private citizens to unite and support road improvement. Part of the lobbying campaign that culminated in legislation authorizing the Interstate Highway system in 1956, this film shows community efforts to improve and increase safety on the Bayshore Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area; congestion in Pittsburgh and the Golden Triangle redevelopment area; the economic benefits of Boston's circumferential highway, Route 128; and safety...
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Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, San Francisco: Infrastructure, Manifest destiny
33,200
33K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
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favorite 34
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Highway engineering and development in the pre-Interstate era.
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Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Land use, Civil engineering
26,486
26K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
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Handy (Jam) Organization
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favorite 88
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Advocacy film produced to garner public support for the creation of the Interstate Highway System.
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Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and highways, Car culture: General, Manifest destiny
16,547
17K
Mar 1, 2007
03/07
by
Bethlehem Steel Company
movies
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favorite 11
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Educational film about how steel is used to make highways, including problems that occur with time and use.
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Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and Highways, Civil Engineering, City Planning, Metals: Steel: Steel Industry
15,286
15K
Mar 1, 2007
03/07
by
Bethlehem Steel Company
movies
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Educational film about how steel is used to make highways, including problems that occur with time and use.
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Topics: Infrastructure: Roads and Highways, Civil Engineering, City Planning, Metals: Steel: Steel Industry
96,944
97K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 96,944
favorite 144
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Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the World's Fair, which looks ahead to the "wonder world of 1960."
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Topics: Futurism, World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Infrastructure: Roads and highways
